Buenos Aires Madrigal[M063A]

$16.50

A journey through the
fundamental subject areas that inspired both the old Italian madrigal and
the Buenos Aires tango. Through Argentina and Italy, with their musicians
and music. Through the instruments of both worlds which sing and converse,
each with their own voice, their different languages and shared stories. Through
migrations, solitude, conflicts, absence, dance, dreams and death. Through
the "places of the soul" of these people, united and marked by irreparable
losses, voyages of no return, hopes on the other shore, exercises in nostalgia.

"BAM"
(Buenos Aires Madrigal) is an imaginary journey taken by three friends, two
Argentinians (Eduardo Egüez and Francisco Gato) and an Italian (Sabina
Colonna Preti), born of the meeting and mutual exchange of their cultures
through time.

BAM is about "yesterday"
with the Italian emigrants who were looking for a new land overseas and about
"today" with the Argentinians who go to Italy in search of their
origins. It`s about "today" with those Italians
crazy about the tango, who dance until dawn in the most famous clubs in Buenos
Aires, and about "yesterday" with the Italian-Argentinians who sang
in the "boliches" of La Boca.

BAM is a journey through
the fundamental themes which are present in these two worlds: migration, loneliness,
contrast, absence, dance and death. It`s a journey which began a few years
ago when Eduardo Egüez heard an Italian Madrigal from the XVII century
performed by a consort of violas da gamba. At that time, the music seemed
to have an Argentinian "flavour", something which took me back to
Buenos Aires, to the bellows of a bandoneón.

BAM is an intense journey
which passes through the soul and excites the emotions. After the first transcriptions,
aimed at adapting the tangos to the sonority of the consort of violas da gamba,
came the greatest surprise, with the reading of the tango texts and their
similarities to the Italian Madrigal. Love: happy or betrayed, disillusioned
or distant; departures: meetings and farewells; faces: loved, lost or desired.

BAM was thus born, with
tangos and madrigals "singing",
each in their own tongue, the great themes which have accompanied Man throughout
his history and which accompany each man during his own personal history.
In particular "absent love" is portrayed as an exercise in nostalgia.

Any art form is born of
a fusion, that is why "early fusion"
(the new collection from the MA Recordings label, with Eduardo Egüez
in the lead) opens the doors to music without limits and invites old
instruments (lutes, violas da gamba, cornets, dulcianas, etc.) to participate
in a repertoire which goes beyond the horizon imagined for them, at the same
time it allows the instruments of today to "wander" and improvise
through the most beautiful pages of old music".

In our efforts to make for a more colorful sonic and musical experience, MA Recordings introduces the"Emerald Audiophile Series". It is well known among concerned audiophiles that light refractions of the optical laser thru the polycarbonate universally used in compact discs can make for a less than accurate reading of the digital musical content.

MA's "Emerald Audiophile Series" discs are actually made with a dark green polycarbonate, to help alleviate the potential problems associated with internal light refraction and enable a more accurate reading of the digital data from the optical disc, delivering the music with more finesse, and ultimately the original intention of the performer(s) and producer.